(Newser)
–
Alvin Greene has just launched his first campaign video, and it is priceless. Titled "Alvin Greene Is on the Scene," the video features a dopey hip-hop mix, with some choice lyrics like, "Well Greene's a new face in politics / And he don't show porno to college chicks." Or how about: "Alvin Greene is the one for you / He knows how you feel because he's unemployed, too."

In another questionable image move, the candidate for US Senate from South Carolina splices in lots of random shots of LeBron James dunking. Honestly, its impossible to tell whether the video is a parody. The New York Times is reporting on it as though it's legit, however, and the end credits say it was produced and directed by Alvin Greene. They also list "Dad" as "first camera" and atrribute the music to "MC Grassroots feat, The Real Americans, mixxed by Defeat Demint Posse."

In a Democracy, The People Get the Candidates They Deserve. - DeToqueville as slightly modified by me http://libertyatstake.blogspot.com/ [For a light hearted take on our present peril]

JohnEd

Jul 25, 2010 12:28 AM CDT

Why waste such talent....

Robin Goldstein

Jul 24, 2010 12:07 PM CDT

this just in from the NYT "correction/update"... btw, am i the only one who thinks that Justin Cass may not be a real name? {quote NYT} Correction: Alvin Greene tells us that he did not make this video — but he’s thrilled with it. “That’s a hit video isn’t it?,” he said when reached at his home in Manning. Asked if he made it, he hemmed and said: “No, we didn’t do that, but it’s good enough to pass on.” CNN says a producer in San Francisco named Jay Friedman made the video, inspired by a group of friends who were “goofing off.” Update: We’ve just heard from Justin Cass, a 23-year-old freelance copywriter who lives in Brooklyn, who made the Alvin Greene video (he says Mr. Friedman wrote the music). The two are Twitter friends, fascinated by Mr. Greene and what he says is “the big unanswered question” of how he won the Democratic primary.